I may have been the only kid who was creeped out by "The Three Lives of Thomasina," which is one of very few movies I was taken to up to that time. As you say, "always weird."
When I was a child I watched Mouseketeers etc and once I threw up afterwards, I was about 5. After that I hated m.mouse. Ha!
My dad spent part of one summer picking up college credits where he was in a group with one of the female Mousketeers. I remember him saying that she had a low opinion of the people involved. Dad believed that the experience had screwed her up.
I was a cartoon-watching kid; I loved 'em. BUT...
I hated Mickey Mouse too (and barely tolerated Donald Duck). If there was any actual humor in a Disney cartoon, it must have accidentally gotten tracked in by a cleaning lady or a delivery guy. Maybe it was because of my dislike for Mickey that I never did like Disney films - like "Thomasina" - or have any desire to go to Disneyland..
I am thankful I grew up in the very early days of TV and it was not a big thing in my life. Very, very thankful.
Years ago I went with friends to see a new Disney release at Disney Studios, loved driving along Mickey Way and Dopey Drive and being in the screening theater which looked much like a high school auditorium. Loved it much less after the pre-feature cartoon. It was an old cartoon, I will guess from the forties or fifties, I really don't know. Pluto was having dreams at night and Mickey had to deal with him, the whole thing was nasty, sadistic and vile. I was not much more than 18, even I knew that the writers and the artists of this particular feature were demented.
Full disclosure: as I have mentioned before, DH's dad drew on some well known Disney movies, he was a technical illustrator doing special effects back in the day.